Michael Grant wrote: > THANK YOU VERY MUCH! > > None of that ever occurred to me. I will definitely be taking the time to > see about fixing it up a bit based on these recommendations. (Won't be for a > few weeks, I start holidays tomorrow.) > > You've been most helpful Mark. Cheers! >
Michael, You are most welcome, and I like your reaction (which bodes well for your future in the industry)! I've seen this type of request before, and very occasionally upon receiving an unfavourable review, the initial poster cursorily dismisses all negative criticisms as irrelevant or inconsequential. What these 'developers' fail to realise is that, as a professional, it is their job to check most - if not all - the aspects mentioned in my previous post. Now, as for your design. As it currently stands it is quite complex, and for the most part requires pixel perfect, or near pixel perfect positioning to achieve the desired look. That's actually OK as long as it's not every pixel in exactly the same spot in every browser (a near impossibility with the current specs and browser implementation). A good start would be changing those fixed height boxes to min-height.What that will do is create a great looking site at the more usual defaults, while allowing users such as myself to access it without much difficulty. My settings will still *break* the visual layout (that's just life on the web), but instead of all that overlapping text, the min-height setting will allow the boxes to stretch to accommodate the text, pushing all the below content further down. In some cases this approach isn't good enough, because the text spills out onto a similar background colour making it invisible. This isn't a problem in your case. If you want to go even further and try and keep the visual aspect (rounded corners and such), then you will need a different approach. One example - prodColumns.gif could be modified to keep get info, purchase, and schedule, cropping everything below. Then, you take the very bottom of the original, cropping only the bottom 30 pixels or so (just enough to keep the rounded corners, but only for ONE of the boxes). You then use that as a background image placed on the bottom of each of the .s_ProdColumn1_text, .s_ProdColumn2_text, .s_ProdColumn3_text divs with a bottom padding equivalent to the image height (so when text pushes it down, the background image moves with it. There were some rounded corner examples in my last post that you can explore if you wish to take this approach. I hope that made some sense. However I gotta say, in this particular case, given just how far down the track your current design is and given that min-height *should* overcome most of the current problems, I would simply opt for that. Enjoy your holiday and if you need any help getting it sorted just let me know. adieu Mark ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:297122 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
